Cumbria CVS funding news and events:
Focus on Funding Forum: 1 October 10.30am to 12pm: Digital Giving and The National Funding Scheme
Learn how to maximise income using digital channels with William Makower, founding Trustee of the National Funding Scheme.
William has spent the last ten years understanding what makes donors give and how digital can best answer the donor's need whilst making fundraising fun and creative for the charity fundraiser. This talk considers how charitable organisations can maximise donations and maintain strong donor relationships across multiple digital channels including text, web and contactless giving.
William is a serial entrepreneur having started his public sector digital consultancy in 1999 (during the original dotcom boom days). In 2012 he founded the National Funding Scheme (operating under the public-facing DONATE™ brand, DONATE™) is an integrated platform that provides convenient and effortless individual giving via SMS text, contactless and mobile web.
Its simplicity has delivered case studies demonstrating increases of 17x amounts raised and millions of ££s raised for local, regional and national charities. Find out how to utilise digital channels to raise income by coming along to hear from an expert. www.nationalfundingscheme.org
To book a place – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-funding-forum-digital-giving-and-the-national-funding-scheme-tickets-169097766973
South Lakeland Third Sector Monthly Meet-up – Thursday 16 September from 11-12
If you represent a not-for-profit organisation in South Lakeland, why not grab a cuppa and come along to this monthly meeting?
As group of voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations we wanted to meet others working in the sector to help us come together to share practice and provide services locally in a linked up and connected way.
These informal, friendly monthly ‘meet-ups’ are an opportunity for us to: meet others providing services locally, share experiences, challenges and solutions, celebrate achievements, communicate and build relationships and explore collaborative working and partnerships.
Date for your diary: Friday 15 October from 11am to 12pm
We look forward to welcoming and meeting you! To book your place please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/copy-of-south-lakeland-third-sector-monthly-meet-up-tickets-168105968477
Please find the latest edition of the Focus on Funding Update attached. There are lots of funding opportunities available with realistic timescales to complete applications.
Please feel free to share with colleagues, partners and contacts and to use in funding bulletins and gazettes (please reference Cumbria CVS as source when using any information for your own publications – thank you).
At a glance…….
RESOURCES AND EVENTS
Focus on Funding Forum - Digital Giving and The National Funding Scheme – 1 Oct 10.30 to 12: Learn how to maximise income using digital channels with William Makower, founding Trustee of the National Funding Scheme.
South Lakeland Third Sector Monthly Meet-up – 16 Sept 11 to 12: Friendly, informal networking opportunity set up by groups for groups.
National Academy for Social Prescribing Webinars – Thriving Communities and Accelerating Innovation present a joint webinar exploring what we mean by financial wellbeing, why it matters to how people feel and function, and how social prescribing can make a difference.
Fundraising UK Article and Research – Neighbourly’s research has revealed that 62% of small charities and local causes have seen demand for their services rise over the past three months, with it now higher than at any other time during the pandemic.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Cumbria Community Foundation manages over 100 different grant making funds. Applications through one central form and staff link projects with funders.
ASDA Foundation - Bringing Communities Back Together – for local groups to reunite communities, celebrate togetherness and support groups as coronavirus restrictions are easing.
Enterprise Development Programme – A final application round for mental-health focused charities and social enterprises for access to grant and learning support to develop their trading ventures.
Active Cumbria Fit for the Future Programme – providing organisations from across Cumbria with a range of practical and interactive workshops for essential skills to enable them to be more resilient.
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust – Sustainable Future Programme – for organisations to develop and promote sustainable, low-carbon alternatives to the current consumerist and growth-based paradigm.
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - Power and Accountability Programme – to support people to create a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are responsive and accountable to wider society and aligned with the long-term public interest.
The Allen Lane Foundation – for work by small organisations that makes a difference to people's lives as opposed to simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems and should aim to reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination.
The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation – to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation or deprived rural areas.
Healthy Ageing Challenge – funding to support service-led innovations to support healthy ageing.
Black and Minoritised Women's Fund – grants are available to organisations led-by-and-for Black and minoritised women, that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
The Percy Bilton Charity – funding for charities with primary objectives to assist disadvantaged/ underprivileged young people; people with disabilities; and older people.
Positive Disruptors – competition to empower young people to ‘positively disrupt’ the status quo, to give them a platform to be heard and to break down the barriers for aspiring young entrepreneurs.
The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund – to support young offenders (round two).
The Lloyds Bank Foundation – helping people overcome complex social issues, such as mental health, homelessness and domestic abuse by helping charities through long-term funding, developmental support as well as influencing policy and practice.